Hello~ This is SockyCake! Welcome to my first fanfiction. I've been quite fan of Love Live! So decided to make a fanfiction. If there are confusing parts, grammar mistakes or else, let me know. Due to cultural differences, some parts might look confusing or don't fit your own knowledge. I made my own research for most of things. Btw, I was listening to ''Aki no Anata no Sora Tooku'' from Lily White. It somehow made me write most of conversation fluently.
Thanks for editing Kanoue Aiichi. Since I'm writing, she helped me a lot.
Disclaimer: I don't own Love Live! or the characters. Just this fluffy story that I'd in mind to share. So here we go. μ's, music, START~o!
Disbanding? Nani Sore Imiwakannai
It's not like they will forever be gone. Their story is definitely not poignant at all. Their soothing time will be remembered, right? And one should remember that if there is Maki, there is also Nico to break silence; if there is this giddy Honoka then there are also her parents in name, Kotori to spoil and Umi to regiment her. Not to mention that these cute and so-called babies in Muse, Hanayo to make her tasukete messages, and there is this exuberant Rin to wait for being hugged as if she is a cat. As a last part of this group, Muse's cool and spiritual members, as organizer Eli to make a proper decision for this crazy group and as keeper Nozomi to bring everybody together giving each member warm feelings.
''Yes, it would be better if it's 6 pm. I've a presentation to show, for professor of course. It will be more like making mochi in my home, but he'll definitely love them.'' the ginger-haired, energetic girl said to her forever-senior.
''I got it. I'll tell others in the group chat, but don't forget to bring your parents' famous bread. Last week, I gave all of them to Alisa and she really liked them. I mean, really liked them. She was the one talking in her sleep wanting more of them,'' an amiable voice escalated from her lips.
''Oke! Consider it done.''
''See you soon, Honoka.''
''I'll see you, Eli-chan,'' Honoka said, as soon as hanging up her phone she directly had up to a green road where her smile faded away along the way.
Yes. They were going to meet up. The Muse, nine members. All together. After 1 month though.
Ironically, It's been exactly nine years and three hundred sixty four days to all members. Nowadays, the first years which contained a tsundere princess, a cat as a pet and a riceball idol fangirl, became third years. Their highschool life nearly ended, and they were all accepted to their respective colleges. Rin and Hanayo were planning to live together, considering their colleges were in the same direction. For Maki who would go to a different school didn't think about much of her college life, although her two senpai were already there, waiting for her. She just wanted to be with everyone, but denying these feelings was in her personality. She was somehow convinced that she was able to live with Eli, who has been studying international relations, and Umi who live in the same apartment since she graduated from Otonokizaka High.
As for second years, Umi had been going to the same college with Eli so it wasn't too hard for her to look for a place where she could share everything and a roommate who could put up with her staidness easily. Honoka was Honoka. As an exception of her maturity on some places, she hasn't grown up too much compared to her two years ago-self, maybe more energetic and maybe more obsessive with being chef. She was occupied with her cooking projects as it seemed her teachers love her just being herself and doing her job as if the world needed her in it. Taking ingredients and mixing them to create eye-catching and mouth-watering dishes just like how she'd liked being idol to everyone's eyes, she dedicated herself to be pâtissier now.
After a year of studying abroad, Kotori finally returned home and decided to stay in Japan, keeping her new style designs in a fashion company. It seemed that she and Umi got closer after the group greeted her in the airport. Umi may be braver than before and more honest, which was why she would've told her feelings more when she and Kotori got separated. The obstacle they had growing up together seemed to lessen through years, and they talked frequently.
As for third years who possessed high level maturity and wisdom, now they were already in a part of adult life. Nozomi, who had been living alone, was now living with Nico who dedicated herself being a number one idol in the universe. After their graduation from both being school idol and Otonokizaka High, Nozomi and Nico were being close enough to share an apartment for themselves. Their compatibility was not quite the point, but their complete opposite attraction which were Nozomi's slow and precise works and Nico's hurried plans made their circle completed; and they already made a promise if Nico is going to become an ambitious and impassioned idol, Nozomi will be her photographer.
Everybody has settled into their new, adult life.
'Hey! Hey! Hey! START DASH!'
''…-ki-chan…''
'Ubuge no kotoritachi mo'
''Maki-chan?''
''Uh-eh?'' the tomato-haired girl got up from her seat as if there was something happening out of her. All eyes were on her suddenly. She blushed, straightened her skirt's wrinkle then resided her seat again and noticed one certain cat girl and rice queen beside her.
''What are you doing Maki-chan?'' the energetic girl asked first.
''Rin-chan, I..I think Maki-chan was thinking about the apartment she is going to share with Umi-chan and Eli-chan. They are going to rethink about the bill and how they would fit into that apartment,'' the olive-haired friend answered the cat girl's question, but uncertainty could be seen from her smooth face.
''Oh! So it was that, nya,'' the short-haired girl thumped up the statement from her childhood friend and sat in the front seat then asked, ''nee, Maki-chan what are you going to do? Did you three talk?''
The red-head frowned. ''I..I do, but I still don't know whether this is a right choice or not.''
The two raised their eyebrows and asked in unison, ''why?''
A little hesitation from her mouth could be read, biting her lip. ''Why? Why.. Well.. you know their permanent settlement will be ruined as though Umi and Eli don't have any problems enough.'' She gazed down at her desk, trying not to look at her best friends. Instead, her delicate fingers played with her hair and her face flushed at what she just said.
Hanayo's face softened. ''You're thinking too much, Maki-chan. I'm sure they would be thankful if you're doing it.'' Her hands gathered on her chest to make her words effective as if Kotori were doing onegai.
''Kayo-chin is right. You're talking like you don't know them, nya.'' The short haired girl approved her opinion. ''I think you ought to be talking with them in a proper time. Maybe tomorrow, when all of us gather, nya?''
''I think so.''
The red-head sighed. ''Hai, hai. I'll try. Are you happy now?'' she asked rhetorically.
''Not 'try,' do it!'' the cat girl raised her voice as she gathered them into a bear hug.
After her talking session with the ginger-haired girl about two hours ago, the tall blonde, especially abstaining from wearing luxurious clothes, was about to go out from her house. Wearing such gracefully refined and dignified clothes would be a problem for her. If she fussed over it too much due to her beautifulness, it would be conspicuous at many points.
''Umi, I'm going out now,'' as she headed towards the door, one specific person didn't answer made her panic suddenly so she asked again, ''Umi?''
''Ah! Sorry Kotori, could you please wait?'' Umi softly said, not that it was near to be frivolous.
It seemed she was talking with one of her childhood friends on the phone.
''You too, Honoka!'' she said firmly.
Nope. It was always these trio. They were again in a group chat. The blue-haired, calm girl was thinking about keeping her words short, her head lengthened from living room's door to entrance. ''Yes Eli?'' she closed the front side of the phone with her hand to prevent any irritating voice going from the other side.
Putting on her sneakers, the blonde continued, ''Sorry to bother, Umi. I was just going out, just so you know. I might be coming back late. See you,'' she stated.
''Hai. By the way Eli don't come home too late and make me worry please. See you,'' the blue-haired girl said with a little worrying expression on her face, the phone was still in her hand.
''Of course I won't. It was one time and I forgot that I should've called you. But I promise I won't do it again,'' she said softly and reassuringly at the same time, then the blonde waved her hand before going out and Umi's face eased. She returned to her previous conversation with her beloved childhood friends.
This year, Eli as a second year in her college, was planning to make a huge step in her life. Aside from the project Eli was working at school on certain times, there was an offer from one of the modeling agencies which had been wanting to work with her resulted in her acceptance. Because she needed money to pay her own bills and the remainings would be for her pleasure. The youth given to her has helped her to make this decision and also she couldn't always depend on her family. Umi has already known that, yet the blonde wanted one more person to learn this before so-called reunion. As the blonde pulled out her cellphone, she immediately dialed her 'friend'.
The cellphone was opened hurriedly. ''Ah! Elichi.''
''Nozomi, I hope you are not busy right now. I have good news.'' The tall girl sounded happy and excited even if Nozomi didn't see her, she would've guessed her expression right away. Even though the purple-haired girl didn't want to break this soft voice and didn't want to regret it, she had to say something. She mumbled over the phone, then words spread from her lips.
''I should go to class, maybe we can talk about it later. I don't want to be selfish, but if I can't make it in time,'' she paused, "our teacher is a bit on the restraining type, if you know what I mean,'' she said with a bit of regret in it and it was lack of apathy.
Sensing the discomfort from the purple head, Eli sighed inwardly. ''Then later at 6 pm?''
Nozomi bit inside of her cheek, grunting. ''Make it 7 pm. I don't have my car with me right now.''
''No,'' Eli said with such straightforwardness.
''Wha-'' the purple head was interrupted so quickly that she could not understand at all.
''I'll come pick you up then,'' The tall blonde said gently.
At Nozomi's surprise, her voice became lovely again, ''Oh.''
''Is that ok?''
''My my.. of course, Elichi.''
''Then see you soon.'' As the blonde hung up her phone, she started off her plans with the reunion they will have tomorrow. The place they will be located, the schedule on what they will do.
''See you.'' As soon as the purple-haired girl hung up her phone, she ran into the building where her class has started.
'Nico puri Nico Nico!'
'I can do it. One more step then my family wouldn't be in poverty. Cocoa, Cocoro, Cotarou, mama and… papa in heaven. I'll definitely make it, just watch me!'
Once the curtain fell down to the sides, she was called from the jury.
She slapped her own cheeks to regain her own composure then went up on the stage where a few people would watch performers.
''Yes, Yazawa-san. We are ready,'' A middle-aged man with stylish clothing on him said, looking at her not quite affected him though. He instead was playing with his pen. Others were looking at her, judging her appearance and gruffly commenting every single detail to each others' ears.
''Hello! This is Yazawa Nico.'' they stood still. While she was not looking at them, she immediately remembered her time with Muse, the young idol group she had in a short time. Thanks to the time she had spent with the girls, she quickly gathered her courage and her distress lessened. In an attempt to make an unbelievable or at least a powerful move to impress the judge, her memory has gone to a particular time when Eli had taught them how to use their body for the first time, how to show its delicacy and diligence.
''Everybody's Nico-nii~'' as she said her catchphrase sincerely, she inhaled then exhaled slowly. Her own body has begun to move from opposite sides sharply, as though it were a professional performance and her thin voice advanced from her throat through the time. When the jury's eyes profoundly were on her, she started to sing a familiar song.
''Hey! Hey! Hey! START DASH!''
''So it's 6 pm tomorrow?''
''Eli-chan said that Maki-chan, Rin-chan and Hanayo-chan will be occupied with their school activities until mid-afternoon. Also I've some kind of homework to present so it would be the best time,'' The ginger-haired girl said in the group chat with her two best friends. She sounded excited.
''Honoka, I hope you didn't forget your homework to show and asked permission from your teacher to prepare it again,'' as the blue-haired girl said, her energetic friend's voice became ambiguous.
Knowing her blue-haired friend was not able to take any piece of trickery or joke to herself she couldn't deny it. ''Umi-chan you're scaring me. You didn't take something from Nozomi-chan right? Like spiritual power maybe?'' she said jokingly.
The ashen-haired girl intervened in the middle of the conversation. ''Umi-chan, you don't have to make her be under a lot of stress. She has enough herself.''
Umi's voice softened when her ashen-haired friend spoke up, she continued to explain the planning schedule which was received from Eli. The tall blonde was the one who was willing to be the organizer. She always tended to make one for this group and it wasn't as hard as when she was student council president.
After talking about many of topics like how Kotori's life had been in abroad, how Umi's literature classes were or how this week's grilling and boiling lectures hardened on Honoka, the ginger-haired girl hung up her cellphone and left her two best friends continuing their talk more.
''Nee, Umi-chan?''
''Yes?''
''I was thinking if you could help me?'' the ashen-haired girl's voice trembled as she closed the distance from the phone and her lips.
The blue-haired girl would've guessed her face which would look apprehensive if they faced each other. ''Of course, Kotori. Anytime you need,'' she said in seriousness.
The passive voice changed into exhaustion to cute little vibrant one like a bird trying to flutter. ''Would you?''
''Of course.''
''Really?''
''Really.''
As Kotori heard the answer she'd needed, she began to explain cheerfully, ''Then you know that I'm being an intern in a company and they offered me a job that whether I could make new clothes for them or not. I don't have a model for the clothes so I wonder if you can help me with modeling.'' The girl knew her best friend's heart filled with amount of benevolence. If she had known her, she could not run away from this situation.
''I'm afraid I've right condition to do this kind of matter.'' she gently rejected her offer. She was lucky because if they face each other, her friend would convince her to do it making her face miserable, but today was not that kind of day so,
''Umi-chan! Everyone is busy with their projects, job offerings or tomorrow's and other days' planning. I'm sure you can help me with this. I don't have enough time to catch up to the deadline.''
''I… I don't know, Kotori. You know that I'm easily embarrassed while wearing something indecent. It's s-shameful.''
''It's not indecent, the clothes I'm going to make will be sports. They're comforting and your body will be confined so don't worry.''
''I..I still d-don't know.'' She hesitated and that only left her squirming uncomfortably. The voice she begged not to hear, unfortunately came softly to her ears, made her ears flushed.
''Umi-chan.''
For Umi, the words could not bring themselves together. ''I..I..''
Taking this passive behavior to her advantage, the ashen-haired girl spoke to her ears again. ''Umi-chan!''
The blue-haired girl's voice was gradually being passive. She looked up to the ceiling in the room, she might have forgotten she was on the phone. ''I..''
One more push to convince her, Kotori said the magical words.''Onegai!''
Her eyes widened as she faltered. The breeze along on the freeway hit her face and she regained her composure. ''I..It's not fair, but I'll accept it. Happy now?'' she said regrettably, but welcomed the idea with a half-smile.
Chuckling aside, Kotori continued, ''thank you, Umi-chan. It means so much to me,'' she smiled to herself. ''Then may I come in your house?''
''Now!?''
''Can't I?''
''No, no. That's not.'' She sighed which she understood that she couldn't escape anymore. ''But don't forget we should call Rin and go shopping after this.''
The ashen-haired girl grumbled. ''I know that much, Umi-chan!'' then she added, ''Then I'm off. See you.''
''Take care, see you soon.''
Without spending more time, Kotori put her jacket on and went off to her place.
Umi reminded them of as a shopping team for the reunion which Eli divided all of them into three groups: Preparation team, Shopping team and Cooking team. The shopping team as Umi mentioned before consisted of herself, Kotori and Rin; the cooking team was Honoka, Hanayo and Nico; the preparation team was Eli, Maki, and Nozomi.
Closing the phone conversation with her best friends, Honoka was up to meet with someone before she prepared her cooking plans for her school project. Up until now, she was outside all day and it didn't absorb her genki energy nor make her tired at all. She had been walking on a specific road while talking with her friends on the phone. She was excited. Opening her arms up to the blue sky, smiling in earnest and bouncing from one place to another until she-
''Honoka-san!'' Said the idol from UTX Academy, waved her hand to ginger-haired girl far from the location she was in.
Noticing the specific person she was going to met up with, Honoka proceed her steps rapidly to close distance from the idol and came in the front of a huge house. ''Ah! Tsubasa-chan, there you are!'' taking another breath she continued, ''How are you doing? You want to meet with me.'' She greeted.
''I'm fine. Always doing dance practices and singing songs with these two,'' she said as checking her up with her green eyes to see how the ginger-haired girl was, she continued, ''It seems you're fine as energetic and brilliant as always. I always admire this side of you,'' She said putting a sincere smile on her face. Honoka blushed a bit at the compliment from her, then smiled.
''Ah! You make me blush.'' As the ginger-haired girl said, Tsubasa covered her own mouth with her hand, giggled. She seemed to enjoy the faces Honoka was making.
''Why don't you come inside? I want to meet with you because I would like to share some news.'' When they entered the house, Honoka was mesmerized by the brilliant entrance she was in. Taking off her jacket, she headed towards the living room with Tsubasa. It has been a while since she was in this kind of fancy entrance even though she was once in Maki's house.
The ginger-haired girl noticed a maid who brought tea on a silver platter. The idol girl sat on the couch cross-legged as they held the cup of tea and she continued her sentence, ''There is such event which I consider good and it's about being idol. Although I'm not going to talk about you nine to come and do your performance, I was wondering if you could attend this event to support us. We are pretty much new to this universe, I mean being new makes us pretty much pressured and we actually don't have enough audience or those who do think themselves as supporters. We had in highschool, but it's different from the actual ones.''
She sipped her tea gently then put the cup of tea on the tripod trestle. It was a flawless moment for Honoka's eyes. Such composed and mature person who could hide her feelings easily made her want to help the short idol girl.
''Yes! I want to, of course!'' she said spryly, and grasped Tsubasa's elbow. At the other girl's surprise, she continued. ''I really missed these kind of things like dancing and singi-'' she stopped suddenly because of remembering that she had talked without thinking or considering the other girls' opinion. But being idol or idol stuff mattered to her so she couldn't stop herself to be affected. The idol-girl jolted. Honoka thought she did it rather badly.
''Amusing. I mean talking with you. Where do you get that much of energy?''
''Tsubasa-chan, you make me feel embarrassed again, please,'' she said as she sipped her hot tea exceedingly. Before taking an action she found her tongue burned, ''Ouch!'' Tsubasa still enjoyed the view she's seen. ''I'll twalk two them then infworm you, ok?''
''Of course,'' the idol-girl said as she placed her palm on her chin and enjoyed the moment once more.
'Hey! Hey! Hey! START DASH!'
That song was the beginning of their story, the scene of their performance left a mark on every members' heart.
And Maki literally mused on thoughts, her inspiration hit the peak. Her heart beat faster as she thought more about two years ago. She was still thinking about those times, a composition that was written hurriedly without heed to legibility then tagged along with Umi and Kotori's lyrics. She was deep in thoughts, but it was interrupted by a phone call from her short senior who had been in her ex-idol group. As she picked up the phone from her bedside, she answered.
''Yes?''
''Maki-chan!'' she burst out. ''Maki-chan! I..I,'' the girl hesitated as seemingly weeping.
''Hey! What is happening? I don't understand Nico-chan,'' The tomato-haired girl said worryingly, she started twirling her hair.
''I passed the auditions! I, beautiful super cute Nico, am going to become a real idol!'' The sound she made was genuinely happy. It was like she was crying for joy.
The red-haired kouhai as well found her eyes get watery, she sniffled. She could read her short friend's feelings even though she wasn't able to see her at that moment. ''Everyone's number one idol-san shouldn't cry like that in the front of others.''
''Look who is talking! I can already imagine you cry. Where is your mommy, Maki-tan?''
She shrank back to the cellphone due to her tsundere attitude. ''Eh?'' continued, ''W-who is crying? I..I don't understand you, Nico-chan,'' but seemingly she could finally reveal her honest side, ''Still.. I..I've faith in your abilities, and your talent how to impress and take attention from the audience. You buckled down enough.'' she blushed at her own words.
''Maki-chan,'' the short girl's voice got serious quickly, ''what I'm feeling right now can't be put into words, you know? I..I was always doing my best for my friends, my family and more than anything, for my dad. I could finally achieve something I would be proud of, and just in case I wanted to share these feelings with you, Maki-chan.'' She said without any exaggeration, the words filled itself with sincerity. Maki was fond of this side of her especially when it made her heart beat faster. When the tomato-haired girl listened her heart pumping inside of her chest, and Nico continued. ''Since I could achieve one of the things I wanted to do. I should do one more quest to achieve a new level! But tomorrow! Now is not the mood I had been planning to make.''
The tomato-haired girl curiously questioned her. ''W-what do you mean? What were you going to do?''
The short girl smiled on the other side. ''Well, let's say that I didn't give out all my feelings,'' she paused, "to you.''
After dealing with her friend, Kotori headed to her university which was not too much deal with high standards. Her job was already given to her hands thanks to going abroad, she had already learned drawing templates, silhouettes, pattern making, draping basics and other kind of lectures more importantly textiles, fashion history and advanced fashion illustration techniques. She had one task she should have done in school so she went to the road. Before going around there, she remembered that she should call her olive-haired friend to make sure that she'd prepared the rice they were going to eat tomorrow all together. Dialing the shy girl, her ear leaned on the phone.
''Hello. Hanayo-chan?''
''K-Kotori-chan? I..I was going to call you now. I couldn't make the rice. I..I'm sorry. I was occupied with the school activities and right after that, supported Rin-chan for her track and field match today. I could've cooked right now, but I should visit my grandpa since I found out from my mother that he is sick.'' Said the olive-haired girl awkwardly.
''Is that so?'' as the ashen-haired girl said, she felt the voice behind other side trembled. She always knew that Hanayo couldn't handle pressure on herself so Kotori tried to smooth her down by saying ''Don't worry Hanayo-chan. We can make something different, but before that I should inform Eli-chan because she deals with the plan. How about talking about this in the group chat? There would be pretty good ideas to take our side.'' Kotori didn't think Hanayo would dodge or pass this kind of case. Also the olive-haired girl was not that kind of person. ''And please tell us later how is your grandfather, ok?'' she said sadly not because of the rice that hasn't been made, but her friend's relative's condition.
The olive-haired girl exhaled heavily and she felt tons of burden was taken from her shoulder. ''R-really? I'm a bit sad that I couldn't do anything for us.''
''Just thinking is enough, Hanayo-chan.''
''Thank you, Kotori-chan.'' She sincerely was thankful to her.
''No problem. When you have time, talk with us in the chat. See you, Hanayo-chan.''
''See you soon, Kotori-chan.''
Around 5.37 pm
Right after the class the purple-haired mystical girl had attended today, she quickly went over the courtyard to breathe fresh air for her lungs. Her lectures were tiring as hell for her. Although it was tiring, she loved to capture moments when she felt its essence, living the present like going on adventures and preserving a pile of glamorous portraits or sceneries with her green eyes, it was totally worth it for her. But one thing she's been thinking was not this kind of case. Even taking photos couldn't be in the first place, she interestingly prioritized her tall blonde friend. Speaking of which, the purple-haired girl suddenly saw one certain blonde towards the entrance of her college with a car which could be described to be fair to middling. It seemed that she came ahead of time.
It was not common for someone to pick another one up from the entrance which was proven by the students surrounding her. She wore a cute short above the level of her knee and a red hoodie on her upper body which looked on her very sportive, making her completely dashing. As soon as the tall blonde's eyes looked her way, noticing purple head's presence, she waved to her friend as she stood up from where she had been sitting.
''Nozomi!'' she shouted. The students around her distributed severally. Yet, eyes still shot a glance.
The purple-haired girl waved back, taking her steps rapidly to close her distance from the blonde. ''Elichi!''
Till the closeness physically got thinner, the heat slowly has scattered onto their faces. When they got closer, Eli held both of her hands. A little coldness in the air was nowhere because they got warmth from their bodies for now. The tall blonde stared into the green orbs uncharacteristically. ''Nozomi, I missed you. How have you been?'' she asked softly.
Nozomi's cheeks dyed with reddish tones and she gladly accepted everything coming from the blonde. Once she hugged her, she couldn't help but feel the tingling sensation flowing through her body has increased. ''I missed you too Elichi, really. It's been two weeks like two years to me and I felt a bit lonely, though I have Nicocchi by my side. But it can't be like with you, you know?'' they stood like that outside of the entrance. The crowd started to whisper to each other, looking at the pair in front of them. Their glances contained neither indecency nor impropriety though. It was more like 'Wow! I approve this.' Taking the loveable aura from the so-called fan behind them, Eli and Nozomi broke their position as well as taking one step back.
The tall blonde continued with her pinkish cheeks, clearing her throat. ''I..I think we should go now.''
The purple-haired girl took this as a sign that they better be going, smiling sincerely. ''Yeah. I think so,'' enjoying the blonde's awkward standing, she continued her sentence, ''we can continue later,'' she said frankly and she winked at the blonde.
Leaving the crowd behind them, they settled into the seats of the blonde's car. Thanks to her living alone once in the past, she could have a car which her father had promised to buy for her regardless of what kind it would be. She could travel with her friends easily just like now.
They wandered away from Nozomi's school for a while. The weather was already cold enough to puff along on the fresh air and the sky has already buried its own wave of ocean blue to a burning orange. The blonde's right hand grasped the steering wheel and her finger was consistently pressing there with a sense of rhythm as if some song got stuck in her head. A few minutes later, the silence was broken by the purple head. She brought up a current topic they had been talking about.
''Elichi, what are we going to do tomorrow's plan? I missed all of them just like how I missed you.''
The blonde set the car in its highest gear, the speediness and plenty of forward action have shown her excitement. ''Me too. I was wondering how was everyone? Does Honoka do her homework regularly? Kotori's fashion designs are this week? Rin's track and field score? Hanayo's application form for Rin's newbie college? Nico's wanna be idol dreams? Or…or Maki's settle plan with me and Umi?'' To think others, the anxious voice was inevitable from her lips. ''And there is that plan..'' the latter part was not as focused as the first one though.
''Elichi.. You know it's been just one month since all of us had gathered. You shouldn't worry or think too much.''
''Are you being jealous Nozomi?'' the blonde teased her.
The purple-haired girl got shocked at the word jealous. ''Me?''
Eli nodded. ''You know I care about you too.''
Nozomi blushed a little bit at blonde's carefree words, ignoring the hotness she was feeling from her own face. ''I know my Elichi does care as much as how she cares for Muse, but you know... you're like a dad who's worried about her daughters every minute.''
''Nozomi!''
She poked the blonde's face, then leaning closer kissed that place out of blue.
Much to her surprise the blonde got goose bumps. ''N-Nozomi!'' she shouted, still wasn't able to look at her directly because of driving car (as if she could do otherwise.)
Covering her own mouth with her hand, grinned mischievously. ''My, my…'' while seeing her girlfriend's cool expression was marred, she quite took a joy with this hilarious view. ''By the way, you were saying plan?''
''I..I forget.'' the silence descended slowly.
Since the teasing part has no longer existed, they came to a place where they'd wanted to be in. The car was slowed down and the blonde began to speak. ''I think we can talk in there.'' She pointed at the restaurant with her index finger, not so fancy or stylish yet it felt cozy just how Nozomi wanted it to be. Now, the sky has lost the color of depth blue over the horizon, and was sprayed with more darker and stronger elements.
A needle in her hand and other hand supporting the fabric, she was attentively sewing the clothes which were needed by her company. Her eyes only focused on stitching until a certain voice broke the silence. ''Umm, Kotori?''
''Hmm?'' she said with a needle on her mouth, pinning some parts.
''Don't you think it's a bit too much?'' Umi blushed at how she was dressed.
Even though Kotori said it was sportive, that was more like wearing male clothes. An unbuttoned waistcoat without a necktie, black jeans and a dark brown boot covering above her ankle were what Sonoda Umi, calm, cool and serious girl, was wearing right now. She rolled up her sleeve due to the hotness she felt.
Until the ashen-haired girl finished her part, Umi turned her eyes where Kotori had bent down. Her focused, calm and caring expression like a mother was one of her favorite things she liked about her. Her mannerisms and demeanor were quite graceful and modest to Umi.
Though the answer would come up late, the blue head wouldn't mind too much knowing her job caused lateness. Taking the needle out of her mouth, Kotori started to speak. ''But you look so cool with them on you, Umi-chan! I think you can wear this kind of clothes from time to time.''
''W-what?!'' she was surprised to hear those words, looking herself in the mirror. ''Kotori, you know these are male clothes, don't you?''
''I should've said to you, those clothes are unisex.'' The ashen-haired girl rose from her position to take her measuring stick for the shoulder part fixing.
Umi flustered at her sudden action, ''B-but..''
Kotori leaned for measuring, but didn't realize how her position looked like. Only the words spread from the pink lips. ''I love how you look!''
No sooner had she closed her distance without realizing than her brilliant golden eyes met the other. They were frozen quite a bit. Their lips were a few centimeters away from each other and their gazes at each other were filled with meaning in various aspects. Several knocks through their chest have reared to their crimson ears. Few minutes later, their everlasting eye contact was finally broken by a message sound, ringing on the table. They quickly averted their eyes as they both took back to regain their composure then Kotori leaned back and added, ''I..I'm sorry, Umi-chan. I..I didn't mean to hurt your feelings.''
Umi was blushing marvelously. But she was not the only one in that room. She's wanted to answer casually but hesitation tagged along her words, ''N-no. I..I-I should be the o-one who's a-ap-apologizing.'' She sounded hesitant which led her heart to beat so fast that she was scared if it was going to explode enough.
''You said our clothes were so short and you didn't want wear them when we were in highschool and now, you don't want this. Decide please!''
''I-Isn't this for your company though?''
She nodded as she grabbed the blue-haired girl's hands. ''That's not the only reason. T-this clothes on you made my heart skip a beat, Umi-chan.''
Her eyes were wide-open and ears reddened at her friend's confession, she was still infected by both her cheerful charm and strong, yet tender words. ''B-bold and s-shameful words, Kotori.'' seeing Kotori's watery eyes, she took her words back. ''I..I'm sorry.''
Upon hearing her words, a soft smile crossed Kotori's face. Feeling a little sad to see her friend like that she closed her distance. ''Apology accepted~'' she said cheerfully and Umi started to smile again. Touching her shoulder from both side, she leaned over and kissed the blue-haired girl on the cheek. On the other hand, the door bell rang. Before the ashen-haired girl went to the entrance, ''For good-looking.'' she said as she winked, leaving the blue head who was far from earth, gaping largely.
When Kotori opened the door, the cat girl appeared at their sight. ''Rin-chan, welcome!''
Rin was vexed enough to complain. ''It seems I was ignored because nobody looked at my messages, but thank you for opening the door, nya.'' placing her hand to her forehead as if searching for something from afar, she looked over the neat place just like how Umi was, extremely well-arranged and clean. When she noticed her cool senpai was now red head to toe and how she dressed, the cat girl curiously asked, ''Am I interrupting something?''
''No, of course not.''
The cat girl waved her hand back and forth against Umi's face. ''Umi-chan looks frozen, nya. Did something happened?''
''Let's just say that she can't handle things.'' At last, the ashen-haired went off the kitchen to pour some tea.
She loved the intense conversation she had before, even the feeling of pain in her tongue. It was kind of scraped as a remarkable memory in her head.
Honoka has already arrived home. Going upstairs briskly, she closeted herself in her room. She was as excited as Eli. Her eyes looked at the moon as her hands reached her cellphone, typing randomly. When she was about to send her message, she noticed the first message was already landed with a cute typefont which belonged to her ashen-haired childhood friend.
/Group Chat/
Kotori: Good evening everyone!
Honoka: Oh! Good evening Kotori-chan. Did smt happen?
Rin: Evening, nya~
Umi: Oh! Kotori. Good evening. Is there something you would like to say?
Nico: Umi as formal as always pls stop. Good evening btw.
Maki: Good evening. Nico-chan you don't have to say it that way, you know?
Nico: Anyways.
Nozomi: Have a spiritual evening!
Eli: Good evening, Kotori, everyone.
Kotori: It is not me to talk but Hanayo-chan wants to say something about the plan.
Eli: I hope it doesn't affect our plans before and after. Anyway..
Honoka: Hanayo-chan isn't here now?
Umi: I hope she doesn't say that she can't come. I mean if we are going to meet it should be 9 of us.
Rin: Kayo-chin didn't say anything like that. She complains that she had a plan today but she couldn't do it on time and she was timid bc of that, nya~
Kotori: I'd talked to her on phone, she was heading home so she might reply later. Her grandfather is sick so she said she couldn't make rice for tomorrow.
Hanayo: Everyone good evening. I had to be sure that my grandfather was ok. Now he is ok.
Everybody: Get well soon.
Hanayo: Thanks. By the way, I couldn't make the rice. IM SORRUY
Nico: She is so sorry that typo got rippled haha
Nozomi: Nicocchi I hope you want your breast washi washi suru-yan because I'm going to do it!
Maki: True words Nozomi.
Nico: YUO TWO!
Honoka: Is that really matter Hanayo-chan? I eman we c an alwoys make our own rice so you wouldn't have to handle if you dnt have time.
Umi: Honoka please be careful about the typos please.
Honoka: U r8 'plaese' 2times tho Umi-chan.
Umi: Honoka!
Kotori: Calm down Umi-chan.
Eli: You don't have to be so much on that thing. I thought you couldn't come with us, Hanayo.
Hanayo: Of course I'll come. I..I Iove you guys so much :3
Rin: Me too Kayo-chin :3 I love you! :3
Maki: So much love that I can't handle.
Nico: Yeah it seems you can't.
Maki: Wh-what?
Rin: Did something happen btw you two, nya?
Eli: Anyway, we can come up with new ideas. Does anyone have any?
Honoka: I suggest we can bring our own ingredients to make something different like hot pot which we had before if you guys remember.
Eli: Hmm. Great idea.
Umi: I think so.
Rin: Yeah. That is a good one. Everybody brings their favorites to add into hot pot, nya~
Nozomi: Kotori-chan, you should know that we will make hot pot, ok?
Kotori: Nozomi-chan it was one time. I'll make sure to not bring cheesecake.
Honoka: Then it's decided!
Eli: Then cooking team is going be with everyone. How about other groups?
Umi: We bought somethings.
Kotori: Good things.
Rin: Fun things, nya!
Nozomi: It seems it's going to be a good party~
Honoka: I didn't think Umi-chon could buy fun things tho :O
Nico: I bet Kotori-chan did smt.
Maki: I think Kotori did something.
Nico&Maki: Why did you copy me?
Hanayo: Minna calm down.
Umi: How about preparation team?
Rin: I wouldn't think Umi-chan to be this calm after teasing.
Honoka: yeah uMi-chan are you k?
Umi: Have to be, Honoka. Sooner or later we'll see each other, right? ^^
Hanayo: I'm scared.
Maki&Rin&Nico: Me too.
Eli: Well, I think this party or what we call it 'reunion' can be at me and Umi's apartment. Maybe before that, we can go somewhere such as karaoke.
Nozomi: Umi-chan if you have lectures you can go ahead. I don't have class tomorrow so I can help Elichi prepare, but Maki-chan you should come with us.
Maki: Why do I have to?
Eli: Because it was decided when we divided into our duties.
Nozomi: You must Maki-chan! Or I'll use my spiritual power.
Maki: Hai, hai. I'll come but not until 3 pm. I've some plans before that.
Nico: Like?
Maki: Like playing piano with my kouhai.
Nico: Oh Look! Maki-tan haz kouhai *claps*
Maki: Seriously Nico-chan what is your problem with me today?
Nico: :(
Maki: Nico-chan?
Maki: Nico-chan! Are you actually mad at me because of our previous conversation?
Nico: :)
Honoka: SHould we leave thme alone?
Everybody else: yes v.v
As everybody except tsunderes closed their group chat, they have buried their face to their fluffy pillows and slept quickly with excitement their bodies have built during the night.
A/N: How was it? Let me know and review please~